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		bogwog on Sept 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS I remember there was some like viral marketing thing some company did a while back where they had a website where they had a webcam pointed at a printer, and anything printed would go on a conveyer belt and fall into a literal dumpster fire. Users could submit stuff on their website and see it printed and burned live. ...anyways, maybe they were vulnerable to this attack at the time?

tsimionescu on Sept 27, 2024 | [–]

The attack is about a malicious printer registering itself to your system, not about a malicious system sending print jobs to a real printer.

pushupentry1219 on Sept 27, 2024 | [–]

Then again, their printer was probably locally-networked and the documents would come in from the webserver and then be passed to the printer.

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